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  • presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Margherita Soldati, Krisztina Czika

    Death Beauty Salon

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    Nov 2019
    3
    Nov 2019
    - Museum Night Amsterdam 2019

    Lie back and let artists Krisztina and Margherita make your death mask. Our Hall of Faces will eventually be filled with death masks.
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  • Mediamatic 2019

    Here you will find an overview of our highlights, go here to see  the full overview of our 2019 program  or click here to view who we will work with this year .  And more: exhibitions , presentations...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    ijKruid

    Starting from Dijkspark, we're mapping the plants in the city

    A big variety of plants is growing around our Biotoop, from healing to toxic, from dark green to purple. You can visit the Dijkspark at any moment.
  • festival: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Japanese Knotweed Festival

    Under European regulations, invasive exotic species are allowed to be radically eradicated. The City of Amsterdam, for example, is allocating 8 million euros to aggressively destroy Japanese knotweed.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Plant Properties

    Starting from Dijkspark, we are mapping plants in the city

    A big variety of plants is growing around our Biotoop, from healing to toxic, from dark green to purple. You can visit the Hortus Dijkspark at any moment. Come to learn more about the different...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Ashes to ashes, dust to dust

    Resomating a Musk Rat

    What happens to our bodies after death? When choosing Resomation as a burial method, the answer is just as fascinating as it might give you the shivers. With resomation, the human body is dissolved...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Aya Koné

    Making Myco-clay

    Turning rotting mycelium into moldable material

    RECIPE 2 parts rotting mycelium 1 part hay/pink oyster mushroom mycelium A giant bucket A large tarp to lay out material 2+ feet/hands to stomp, turn, squish and mix
  • Venue Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Space for a final goodbye

    (un)conventional rite

    All forms of life are given a place at Mediamatic. Death is inherently linked with the cycle of life. Just as nature provides room for death, so do we. We offer the opportunity to bid your deceased...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

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  • exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Invisible Collection

    Have you ever wondered what it’s like to not be able to look at art? With this auditory collection, we discover art with all our senses except sight. How do you experience art without looking at it?
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark, Dijkspark Lisa Witte

    Doubts about Casting Doubt

    To what extent can you restore a work before you affect its authenticity?

    Casting Doubt is an art project created by Masha Ru and Jasmin Moeller. The open-air project consists of a series of flowerbeds, each with a self-reflective question on the side, formed by pins. By...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    What is a Neo Futurist Dinner?

    Neo Futurist Dinner is a programme line at Mediamatic where the world of food, art and science are brought together. During these gastronomical experiences, you will be engulfed in a multi-sensory...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    The Story behind Skin Hunger

    A reminder that our need to eat is as fundamental as our need to be touched

    What happens if we can’t touch each other? The answer is Skin Hunger - the biological need for human touch. It’s why babies in neonatal intensive care units are placed on their parent’s naked chests.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Nature needs Heroes

    Wereldwijde campagne voor een groenere toekomst

    Timberland gelooft dat een groenere toekomst een betere toekomst is. Het merk zet zich als onderdeel van haar streven naar een groenere toekomst in om 50 miljoen bomen te planten voor 2025. Het merk...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark, Oosterdok

    Open Call 2019 Olfactory History of Oosterdok

    This open call is closed

    Before Covid19, we were planning an ambitious event in Amsterdam about the Sensory History of Oosterdok, the eastern part of the old harbour of the city. Related to this project, Mediamatic issued an...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Clara Casal, Nadja Nolte

    How-to Tofu

    Make your own Tofu from a batch of Soybeans

    Why not savour the amazing qualities of soybeans by making tofu at home!  Did you know that soybeans are largely indigestible? This is due to the presence of an enzyme inhibitor called protease...
  • exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    The Six-Winged Chicken and other mythical…

    1
    Sep 2020
    - by Anne Kamps

    Where does the meat we eat actually come from? On what scale is it produced? And, what is real news and what is fake news? A few years ago, the phenomenon of the six-winged chicken was written about...
  • workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Building Aquaponic Systems

    with Saro van Cleynenbreugel

    Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. It is one of the best ways to produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space.

  • Dood

    Program overview

    An interactive exploration of your identity and expression in relation to death. From abstract death portraits to death masks, from beauty to love, from guts to gills: this year our Museumnacht will...
  • Perfume Niklaus Mettler 20 Aug 2018

    Filtered Beans

    The Scent of Fancy Condos

    The qualities of cafés can tell us about the make-up of a community, a neighborhood’s ethnic composition and about the urban development of a city. Niklaus Mettler extracted the flavors of three...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Clara Casal, Elnaz Assar, Magdalena Thur, Nadja Nolte

    Acorn Sausages Recipe

    Exploring the culinary potential of wild plants surrounding Mediamatic, the Balanophagy Team is making sausages out of acorn paste

    Acorn sausages - makes 1 piece 150g acorn paste (use a blender) 1-2 potatoes 1 tbsp fried onions 1 garlic clove of garlic 2 tbsp roasted breadcrumps 1 tbsp olive oil salt and pepper Mix all...

  • Nature Morte

    Death, Design and Sustainability

    We explore new approaches and designs for our own inevitable death with progressive funeral director Susanne Duijvestein. Lectures and workshops about architecture, rituals, life stories and the...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Clara Casal, Magdalena Thur, Elnaz Assar, Nadja Nolte

    The Balanophagy Team

    We are Clara, Magdalena, Elnaz and Nadja and we are living the balanoculture: the harvesting, processing, storage and consumption of acorns play a large role in our project taking place in the Clean...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Sculpting Textiles

    with Margherita Soldati

    How can you use unconventional materials and techniques to manipulate textile in shapes, textures and patterns? During the workshop, artist Margherita Soldati will introduce you to manipulating...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Magdalena Thur

    The Resomation of Fungal tissue

    Could fungi provide the future fabric for death shrouds?

    Mediamatic's search for vegan fabric that could be used in Resomation, an environmentally friendly alternative burial method, led to testing fungal material.

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